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$S^\prime_4$ Quark Flavour Model in the Vicinity of the Fixed Point $\tau = i\infty$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-01-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study in the bottom-up framework the possibility to generate the quark mass hierarchies without fine-tuning, the quark mixing and CP-violation (CPV) in a flavour model with S4S^\prime_4 modular symmetry having minimal number of parameters. The model is considered in the vicinity of the fixed point τT=i\tau_\text{T}= i\infty, τvevτT\tau_\text{vev} \sim \tau_\text{T}, τvev\tau_\text{vev} being the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the modulus τ\tau, which allows to explain the hierarchies of the quark masses. The ten quark observables are described by nine real parameters. The CP-symmetry is broken explicitly since, as is well known, reproducing the observed CPV in the quark sector in the case of spontaneous breaking of CP-symmetry by τvev\tau_\text{vev} is highly problematic in the class of minimal modular quark flavour models (explaining the quark mass hierarchies without fine-tuning) of the type we consider. We perform a statistical analysis of the model and show that it is phenomenologically viable and consistent, in particular, with the ``inclusive'' decay data on the Vub|V_{ub}| and Vcb|V_{cb}| elements of the CKM matrix and, in the case of a very high scale of supersymmetry breaking, with the current ``average'' experimental values of Vub|V_{ub}| and Vcb|V_{cb}|.

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@article{arxiv.2601.04529,
  title  = {$S^\prime_4$ Quark Flavour Model in the Vicinity of the Fixed Point $\tau = i\infty$},
  author = {S. T. Petcov and M. Tanimoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.04529},
  year   = {2026}
}

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